Writer’s Inspiration

Look here every Saturday for a weekly writing exercise that will get you warmed up and inspired to return to your novel. Who knows, it could turn out to be your next short story or even the next chapter of your novel! When you complete the exercise, share it with us by posting it on our blog as a comment.
This week’s exercise:
Write a dictionary-style definition for the word ECDYSIAST (pronounced eckDIZeeAST).
Use ECDYSIAST with your fictitious definition in a story. Your first line is:
It all started when…

This week’s inspiration is taken from the book, The Write Brain Workbook, by Bonnie Neubauer.